CHRIS CROUCH (Frankie / Understudy for Smudge) is happy to once again join this amazing cast after a five month run of the show in Pittsburgh last winter. He is also a proud AEA member. His national tour credits include the role of Younger Brother in Ragtime and Harold Hill in The Music Man. Regional and other credits include Jamie in The Last 5 Years at the Denver Center, Che in Evita, Joseph in Joseph ... Dreamcoat, Judas in Godspell, Ren in Footloose, and he’s appeared as Sparky, Smudge, and Jinx with Forever Plaid productions in Charlotte, Boston and Pittsburgh. Chris’ most humbling role to date was playing the Ugly Duckling on the national tour of The Ugly Duckling. But his favorite role is that of Uncle to nieces and nephews Michael, Sophia, Ethan, Luke, Lorelei, Dylan and Beckham. Thank you, Guy. Thanks also to friends and family for their love and support.

J.D. DAW (Jinx) Regional: California Musical Theatre, Forever Plaid (Jinx), Funny Girl (Ziegfeld Tenor); Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Smokey Joe’s Café (Michael); Broadway Rose Theatre, Nite Club Confidential (Mitch); Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret Theatre, inaugural production, Forever Plaid (Jinx), Plaid Tidings (Jinx), Forbidden Broadway (Swing); Pittsburgh CLO, 1776 (Leather Apron); North Shore Music Theatre, Forever Plaid (Jinx); Playhouse West, The Boyfriend (Marcel/Pepe). Penn State School of Theatre: Six Degrees of Separation (Rick), Parade (Britt Craig), Urinetown (Bobby Strong), Search and Destroy (Kim Feston). Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

JOSEPH DOMENCIC (Smudge) hails from his hometown, Pittsburgh, where he has acted with the Public Theater (The Comedy of Errors, Cabaret), Unseam’d Shakespeare (The Constant Prince), and the Pittsburgh CLO (17 productions, including Les Misérables, 1776, A Musical Christmas Carol, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Forbidden Broadway and My Way). He toured the country as an actor and assistant music director with The Acting Company in Oh Pioneers! and The Comedy of Errors, and music directed the workshop of K. (Kafka Songs) at the Sundance Theatre Lab. Last fall, he played the Gentleman Caller and composed incidental music for the Mountain Playhouse’s production of The Glass Menagerie starring Sandy Duncan and directed by Guy Stroman. He continues to teach, direct, or write music for ACT ONE Theatre School, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School, and Seton Hill University. This December, he’ll appear in Hobson’s Choice with Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre.

MARCUS STEVENS (Sparky) has a long history with Forever Plaid, having appeared in Pittsburgh CLO’s long running production as well as their production of Plaid Tidings. A graduate of Point Park Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Marcus has had the opportunity to work at many of Pittsburgh’s premiere regional theaters including the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh City Theater, Jewish Theater of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Most recently, Marcus was seen as the Barber in Man of La Mancha at Sacramento Music Circus (also directed by Guy Stroman), as Mandy Patinkin, Michael Crawford and many other zany characters in Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and as Motel the Tailor alongside Mark Jacoby in Walnut Street’s recent production of Fiddler on the Roof (Barrymore Nomination). As a writer, Marcus is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop and is the recipient of the 2005 Richard Rodgers Award for his musical Red. Marcus has also written the book and lyrics to Elliot and the Magic Bed, Eastburn Avenue, and Yo Vikings! which had its world premiere this summer at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia.

MARK TURNER (Understudy for Frankie, Jinx and Sparky) originally a Pittsburgh native, is glad to have the opportunity to be invited to reprise his role as Swing in Forever Plaid. This is Mark’s fifth production in plaid land. Mark would like to thank Proctors, the Pittsburgh CLO, this incredibly talented cast and crew, and especially Guy Stroman for being the incredibly amazing man he is.